Finding the route to Asian entertainment

Some of my more-recently acquired guilty pleasures include reading Japanese comics (aka manga) and watching Asian movies/cartoons. Finding and attaining manga and Asian movies is a lot more time-intensive than getting American equivalents at the library or local book store. Sometimes I feel like I'm wasting time by watching all these movies in languages I can't understand. I am, however, getting more efficient at this. The best source for recent Japanese media is Tokyo Toshokan. The best source of manga is StopTazmo.com. And for Asian movies, I usually google for an "ECHiZEN" version of the movie. ECHiZen is the name of some guy who rips, encodes, and subs Asian movies and posts them on the forums at AsiaFinest.com. He is a one-man machine! When I get a job, I need to send some PayPal donations to him! This is all an evolving process, however. I remember when I first got into Asian entertainment a year ago, it was extremely hard to find online sources that were not dead. Mostly this was due to an anime series getting liscenced by Cartoon Network here in the US, and then the online sources having to shut down to comply with copyright laws. So who knows, in another year, maybe all those sources I listed will be dead links. Sorry in advance to anyone to found this post from googling for anime/manga/jpop/Asian movies and found that situation true. There is hope, however, that the quest for a route to Asian entertainment will become easier. Manga has completely overrun a section of every Borders and B&N store (right next to the sci-fi section, so us geeks are contained and don't scare off the people looking for the latest Oprah Club-approved book). Manga is even finding a place on newspapers' comic strips pages. And as many of you know, the world is getting smaller (globalization, teehee). The chances of you having a relative or friend going to China is increasingly larger, so you can ask them for $2 pirated vcds of Asian masterpieces, such as Star Wars 3: Backstroke of the West.